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Atopia

by Ronnie Stevens — last modified November 29, 2006 - 21:56


Home page	Atopia
Location	Netherlands

Atopia creates powerful customised web solutions, using flexible and innovative open source technologies.

The web has no limits. How about you?

Websites expose the souls of organisations. Dynamic or sleepy? Flowing lines or conflicting elements? Sustainable pace or rush job?

Quality

People judge organisations by their websites. To create and meet high expectations, requires a serious effort to integrate the web into your business processes.

Ask not what the web can do for you. Ask what you can do for the web. We focus on web-enabling the specific qualities of your organisation, using technology that guaranties maximal exposure and superior ease of use.

Process

Atopia combines the expertise of seasoned web developers. We offer an integral solution: graphic design, website construction, custom software development and advanced hosting options, all realized in-house.

OSOSS: Open Source, Open Standards Software

Atopia implements open source technology: robust, secure, innovative and vendor independent. Strict conformance to open standards ensures a high quality finish, maximal reach, cross-device compatibility and future proofed solutions.

Atopia creates open technology solutions, empowering people.

Deployed Sites

Benthem Crouwel Architects (Netherlands ): Perfectly styled website for internationally acclaimed architects. The previous website was impossible to find using Google. Benthem Crouwel wants to appeal to an international audience and combine a standards-compliant, well-indexed website with the highest standards in visual design.
Dutch Kidney Foundation (Netherlands ): The corporate website of the Nierstichting (Dutch Kidney Foundation) which attracts three quarter of a million visitors per month. How to implement a large site with an ambitious graphical style which can handle peak traffic in weeks of collecting sponsor money from the general public? An implementation which is scalable combined with a powerful custom hosting environment enables Nierstichting to support the fundraising activities with elaborate background information. This site has to be able to deal with three quarters of a million vistors (50 million hits) in the busiest month of fundraising. Load balancing and aggressive caching ensure smooth handling of this amount of traffic and combine it with the extensive features of Plone.
ExHEM (Netherlands ): ExHEM is specialized in organizing study trips and conferences for higher education and healthcare professionals. This website hands ExHEM the opportunity to add events and background information. The backoffice can create registration forms and download the registrations as an excell file.
Kidneeds (Netherlands ): Graphically attractive website for children with a kidney disease, supporting the communication with this target group. In order to reach a young audience, the Nierstichting chose to integrate a graphically rich Flash presentation with the editorial features of a content management system. This was poosible on a limited budget because of a well-managed design phase.
Lambo publisher (Netherlands ): Educational resources catalogue for secondary education. How do we offer a broad range of product lines cost effectively in an e-commerce solution? Cleverly utilising the standard webshop component PloneMall within Plone CMS enables enables publishing house Lambo to implement a full-fledged web shop.
Lumière cinema (Netherlands ): Program site for large cinema. After expanding to 6 theaters, Lumière cinema had a luxury problem.The weekly changing programme, more movies and more customers put a higher demand on the information service. The new website is scaleable, faster, comprehensive, cost effective and always up to date.
Maastricht Debates (Netherlands ): The Maastricht Debates is a platform for debate and networking for and by Maastricht organisations and actors. This site effectively utilizes only standard functionalities of the Plone CMS. Even within tight budget constraints a rich user experience is provided.
Maastrichtnet (Netherlands ): High traffic information source for what's on in the Maastricht area. To strenghten its market position as THE culture portal for Maastricht , MaastrichtNet has launched a completely new website. With this new site, MaarstrichtNet aspires to a top position in Google. Google advertisements and an XML connection with the production of the printed version support the business case. Extended RSS capabilities appeal to a trendy young audience and enable mobile use of the site.
Task Force Handicap en Samenleving (Netherlands ): Accessable website for and about disabilities. The most important requirement for the website of the Task Force Handicap en Samenleving is, of course, that it is accesible for its target audience. Accessability for the disabled is not getting the attention it deserves on many websites. although it is techincally feasible. Atopia has re-build the old TFHS site, which did not meet the accessability requirements anymore, Now it is strictly conforming to the W3C standards using the Plone CMS.
UniC (Netherlands ): A secondary school with a mind of its own, UniC is " different from the schools you are used to." You can see this difference in the happy, playful graphical style. In addition, the site is structured by theme using colors. The themes are accessible via attractive see through-windows.